Leonardo Da Vinci Code Analysis

3 OK 10/11

Leonard Da Vinci, Part three. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com

Today we cover Part three of Leonardo Da Vinci, and his painting, the “Mono Lisa”.

The other most famous painting of Da Vinci is the Mono Lisa now on exhibited in the Louvre, at Paris.

About twenty years ago one of my students asked me the question “what is your opinion of the Da Vinci Code?’ My reply was “At this point I am not sure how to give you an answer, however it is my opinion, based on what I do know now, I place no credence in this theory.”

Now, twenty years later and doing some research on the subject, namely the book “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown, that was printed in 2003. In a previous post I made the statement “ I have not read the book,

Doubleday, makes the following statement, “All of the characters in this book are factious. “

Dan Brown starts in his “Acknowledgment: “that it is a novel” We can see that it is a novel based on fiction. I still hold to my statement about twenty years ago. ..”based on what I do know now, I place no credence in this theory.” What Brown asserts as fact that are not true. Most of the following is found in the 55th chapter, where Brown asserts

I must say that there are some strange attributes about the picture; she has no eyelids, no eyebrows and one finger on the left hand is unfinished.

The following we find some explanations for this unusual features :

In 2007, French engineer Pascal Cotte announced that his ultra-high resolution scans of the painting provide evidence that Mona Lisa was originally painted with eyelashes and with visible eyebrows, but that these had gradually disappeared over time, perhaps as a result of over cleaning.

Another view by Kathleen Grace, who for 30 years an artist, art consultant and instructor, make the following statement: “Most of Da Vinci 's works do not show eyelashes on women, or very little, and the eyebrows are all very subtle, barely showing a hint of them. ... Raphael did the same, and Michelangelo didn 't do eyelashes either, many painters of that time didn 't.”

Another view by Some researchers, who claims that it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck these hairs, as they were considered